The Washington critic., 1887-12-16
NOT ON THE PROGRAMME.
Clara Morris "Cora" upscts the Nerves oi
One of Her Auditors.

I
At the end of the first act Of "L'Article
A." at Albaugh's last night the audience
in the balcony was disturbed by the pc
culiar actions and mutterings of a young
woman, who appeared to be suffering
with hysteria. Officer Mcmahon being
called, found Miss Lucy Walton Rhett
Horton in violent Mysteries.
He removed her to the lobby below and
out to the steps in front Of the building,
where she sat down and absolutely re-
fused TO 20 further, Notwithstanding the
persuasions Of the lady who was with
her and of several gentlemen who had
gathered about. She raved wildly and
threw herself about, screaming and cry
ing and threatening those around her
with the vengeance OF her official
friends high in power. Finding that 1t
was useless TO attempt removing her by
gentle means, the patrol wagon was
called and she was taken to the Twelfth
Street Station, her friend accompanying
her.
Beyond doubt the scene which had
Just been enacted on the stage, in which
Clara Morris Us Cora, the Creole girl, Is
shot by her lover George DuhdmcI, re-
called so yividly to her mind scene in
her own life seven years ago that the
theatrical strain was more than she
could bear.
1t will be remembered that during the
year 1880 a young lady attempted to Kill
John Morgan, the son of Senator Nor
gan of ALBANIA, whom she charged with
having betrayed her. She shot him,
but he escaped injury by reason of
the thick padding in his overcoat. This
was Miss Horton, who had followed him
from her home in the South and had at
tempted to wreak her vengeance on him
here. She was not prosecuted, but was
sent to the Insane Asylum. where she
remained only n short time. .
At the station house she was locked
up in one of the witness rooms up stairs,
where she remained all night. Some Of
her friends called for her but she re-
fused to 20 with them. She seemed to
still he hysterical and DR.. McKone of
the Emergency Hospital, administered
scdatives which quieied her.
WHAT MISS HORTON SAYS.
Insanity" is written opposite her
name on the blotter. Miss Horton is
"a years old, and looks rather younger
than that. She has Il very sweet, pretty
face and is Of graceful, rather petete
figure, and her coal-black hair is short
and curly. She was pale this morning,
but calm and hardly seemed to be suffer
ing mental alteration. She said l
went to Albaugh's unexpectedly last
night, having started to go to another
theatre, and I did not know what the
play was. did not have any bill of the
play, and at the end of the first act l
asked Mrs. Smith the namc of the play.
That was all. have been insulted and
have resolved not to leave this place till
l got an explanation.
NO." she said, II was not sick last
night. There was nothing at all the
matter with me. All did was to ask
the name of the play"
She said that some one connected with
Albaugh's was bitter enemy Of hers,
and she thought that this enemy was TO
blame for last nights affair at the the
atre with view to depriving her Of her
place in the Postoffice Department.
1t is said that. Miss Horton is the great
granddaughter of John c. Calhoun.
She lives on G street, between Twelfth
and Thirteenth, and is highly spoken of
by all her friends, She has been en-
ployed for some time in the Postofiice
Department, being appointed from Ala
bama, and since her trouble with young
Morgan has frequently been subject to
attacks Of nervousness.